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ID Verfication
 

Has anyone tried using a EIN and Bank Account instead of using a id? Any good workaround?

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There is no ID alternative. You must be prepared to provide all the following documents as they can be requested at any point

1. ID
2. Utility Bill
3. Business license
4. Bank statement

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yup...goodluck!

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The PITA part is even if you do provide them, they're inconsistent with what they accept and reject. I have many clients that have been reporting a success rate of around 50% of being approved after submitting the requested paper work. If they reject your seller application, you can also kiss goodbye the $39.99 seller fees that was charged to the account upon registration. You can get them to refund those seller fees if your account fails approval with enough emails, but they will only credit the $39.99 onto your Amazon account which is useless.

If you are hit with the business license request, be prepared to wait over 30 days to get a response as that department is heavily backed up.

In short, Amazon is a PITA

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It is PITA. Even beyond what i have experienced. Two accounts had different requests. Pray and wait. All you can do. Their metrics feel tighter to. Last year was so much better. Now You have to perfect. S--rew the Consultants at Mckinsey the Bezos hired. Its all about 5 cents a order to him.

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NON-USA accounts except for UK dont have to deal with these issues do they?

Seems we are being punished for being in USA?

Curious if any outside of USA/UK sellers have any of this grief to deal with?

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Yes you do still need to provide those documents regardless of what country you register under.

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What is their idea of a US national ID? Driver's license, passport or SS card?

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^

Picture ID issued by a state or federal government. (Passport, DL, etc)

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can u block out any info from the ID? address perhaps?

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If you block info you will decrease your chances of passing verification

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How are you handling requests for multiple accounts? Have you provided an ID with suspended info before and they accepted it?

People on the AZ forums are saying they are rejected their ID's saying that that they do not accept national forms of ID or passports, so i'm confused

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I have seen nothing clear on this in the guide or on the forums. You say to be prepared to provide these 4 things. But, how? How do I provide these 4 things when they don't exist?

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Find a way to make them exist ;)

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How long after you upgraded did they start coming after you for id and license?

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They can ask for verification at any point after upgrading, most of the time right away as you do it.

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I'm assuming that if you register as an LLC they will still ask for ID. How does that work if you have never given them your name?

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They want an ID of the owner for that LLC. To try and find if you have other seller accounts and link you. Its never for the sellers benefit, these hoops are for AMZ's benefit

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So i just went through this for my business and they ask for owners or managers info. I sent them my ID blocked out my address as its already in system (didnt seem to have issue with that). they accept everything and I'm back to selling. I had bank account in company name and utility bill and everything else was legit and matched

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Are you stealth? I assume so, that being the case how were you able to give them your actual ID and utility bill, didn't they have your real name and address which would link you to your previous acccount?

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When did they ask Gamefreak? After upgrading to pro?

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I never heard this accepted id where you removed your address, maybe you lucky

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Yeah you got lucky, lol..If i was on SP, i'd be like this cat has something to hide, why cant i see his mailing address on his ID? But kudos that it worked out =).

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no i was a pro for months. i was slowly selling i mean slowly. got to point where i needed to upgrade so i did. about 6 months after they ask for the info

i haven't provided my actually ID to amazon EVER until this. Not even my real name under a sellers account or buyers account where everything matched whats on my ID

They didnt seem to make a big deal about the address thing as they said any "manager" of the business can provide ID to verify as long as their name is added until the return address section

as in business name and below that your name

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thanks man, quick question

so you didnt have to change the actual name you registered with just add the name in the return address area did you have to change the address to the one on the ID aswell? and did you take the name out after you were verified? to keep the name off amazons radar? because im wondering if a person can be a manager for several different stealths?

thanks

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bump :bump:

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no i didnt have to change address to match my ID as i actually blocked out my address from the ID as it matches one of my other amazon accounts i have running right now.

I doubt they would allow same "manager" for several accounts.

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I have a question along these lines

Here is a scenario:

Let's say you have account#1 in the US (verified and older on Amazon.com) using address #1 for business entity #1.

Then you have account #1 in the UK (verified and older on Amazon.co.uk) using address #1 for business entity #1.

The business moves and you update address #1 to address #2 in the UK on account #1 (amazon.co.uk).

US account #1 stays the same way - with the address remaining unchanged (sticking to address #1).

Now you open a new stealth account (account#2) on Amazon.com (USA) using address #2 and business entity #2 due to the requirements with utility bills, etc.

Can Amazon.com link address #2 to Amazon.co.uk with address #2 being used there on UK account #1? (There is no UK account #2 - yet).

Thanks!

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Dot com and .co.uk does not share the information

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Guys
So are you saying that Amazon requires ID and address verification for all new amz professional sellers?
I remember my brother passed from Pro to regular 2 months ago and when he wanted to come back to professional again amz asked for personal info.

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Even a personal selling account now requires docs